This book explores the question of whether the conceptualisation of New Zealand as a tolerant, welcoming nation is accurate. Examining historical and contemporary narratives of migrant and refugee discrimination, it considers the economic, social, political, cultural and historical contexts from which discrimination emerges and its repercussions. Alert to race and ethnicity, gender, age, class, religion, and inter-ethnic migrant conflict, the volume traverses an array of discriminatory practices - including xenophobia, racism, and sectarianism - and responses to them. With rich evidence, fascinating new insights, and engagement comparatively and transnationally with global themes of exploitation, exclusion, and inequalities, Narratives of Migrant and Refuge Discrimination in New Zealand will appeal to scholars across the humanities and social sciences with interests in migration and diaspora studies, race and ethnicity, and refugee studies.
Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History and Director of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author of Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand Since 1840 and Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860-1910 , the co-author of Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon , and the co-editor of Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific and Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010 .
